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Dr. Chris Lavers is a senior lecturer in natural history in the School of Geography, University of Nottingham. He has written for The Spectator, New statesman, New Scientist, and The Ecologist, and has reviewed many popular science and history books for The Guardian. His first book, Why Elephants Have Big Ears, has been translated into five languages.

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The Natural History of Unic...
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“Half a century later the great horn of Windsor, one of several alicorns owned by the British royal family, was valued at £100,000.”
― Chris Lavers, The Natural History of Unicorns: An Intellectual Detective Story Tracing the Legend to Real Animals
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“Perhaps unicorns once made perfect sense and then we simply forgot.”
― Chris Lavers, The Natural History of Unicorns: An Intellectual Detective Story Tracing the Legend to Real Animals
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“If your unicorn shifts disconcertingly between a goat, a horse, a rhinoceros, a marine mammal from the North Atlantic, assorted Tibetan ungulates and a six-eyed ass whose ears will terrify, the work of this book is almost done.”
― Chris Lavers, The Natural History of Unicorns
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